This workshop is a Category 1 MYP workshop. This workshop is intended for new MYP Sciences teachers. (New to IB MYP, not necessarily new to teaching)
All participants are requested to bring with them the following:
A usb thumb drive to share resources
Laptop (please ensure that your school has given you sufficient administrator rights to be able to change your IP/network settings so that you can connect to the local network onsite) – bring a power adaptor and a projector adaptor (if a Mac user)
Copies of MYP: From Principles into Practise & MYP Sciences Guide. (pdf or paper)
Online Curriculum Centre (OCC) username and password
Draft and current MYP Unit Plans that you are currently implementing in the classroom
Extend the understanding of key and related concepts and how they may ground interdisciplinary teaching and learning
Consolidate understanding of key and related concepts by framing a conceptual understanding of a new unit of work Consolidate the role of MYP global contexts as they relate to both the unit and international-mindedness Developing a statement of inquiry
Session 3: Written curriculum Consolidate understanding of concepts and context as a statement of inquiry Design appropriate inquiry questions to guide inquiry (factual, conceptual, debatable) Reflect upon the implications of an inquiry- based approach to teaching and learning
Review aims, objectives and requirements of the subject group Consolidate understanding of task-specific clarifications using the criteria and the appropriate strands
Design formative learning engagements that will equip students with the required factual, procedural and conceptual knowledge that support the summative assessment task(s)
This workshop is a Category 1 MYP workshop. This workshop is intended for new MYP Sciences teachers. (New to IB MYP, not necessarily new to teaching)
All participants are requested to bring with them the following:
Sciences Agenda
Sciences Workbook
Sciences Powerpoint Slides
IB Documents (from the OCC)
Session 1:Philosophy
Standards and practicesPerspectives for the millennium
Aims for Sciences
Discussing the challenges of developing and delivering an MYP unit work
Handouts for Session 1
Session 2: Written curriculum
Extend the understanding of key and related concepts and how they may ground interdisciplinary teaching and learningConsolidate understanding of key and related concepts by framing a conceptual understanding of a new unit of work
Consolidate the role of MYP global contexts as they relate to both the unit and international-mindedness
Developing a statement of inquiry
Session 3: Written curriculum
Consolidate understanding of concepts and context as a statement of inquiry
Design appropriate inquiry questions to guide inquiry (factual, conceptual, debatable)
Reflect upon the implications of an inquiry- based approach to teaching and learning
Session 4: Assessed Curriculum
Design authentic summative assessment tasks(GRASPS)
Justify the relationship between the summative task and the statement of inquiry
Session 5: Taught curriculum
Review aims, objectives and requirements of the subject groupConsolidate understanding of task-specific clarifications using the criteria and the appropriate strands
Session 6: Taught curriculum
Design formative learning engagements that willequip students with the required factual, procedural and conceptual knowledge that support the summative assessment task(s)
Session 7: Assessed curriculum
- Standardize understanding of how to arrive at a
judgment using a common assessment task and
published criteria.
Discuss successful strategies for recording and reporting ongoing student progress in the subject.Session 8: IDU planning
Collaborative planning from different different subject groups to plan & present the outline of an Interdisciplinary unit
Closing
Burning Questions & Where to next